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in the clerb, we all fam

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RIP Cat Brannock I know you probably had a banger flying playlist

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Scarlett, being flirty and suggestive: I need someone who matches my level of freak ;)

Finian, riddled with insecurities: I definitely do but not in the way you’re talking about

POV: Scar & Fin

creds: @omo_core on twitter

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I have so much in my drafts that I don’t post cause I’m like nah the way I phrase some things might be too cracked and too raunchy, but then I come across the odd post like this with the same energy and think hmmm you know what maybe it’s not too much.

The starslayer : Your sister would never step so low as to lay with a human, Saedii has HONOR

*Meanwhile Saedii, one chapter away getting absolutely rawed by my boy Tyler Jones*

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I’m that part in AB when Auri can’t sleep cause of nightmares so she gets up and goes to chat with Fin and makes their favorite drinks and he invites her to talk about the bad dream if she wants and is like a load shared is a load halved and she’s like is that an ancient Betraskan proverb or something and he’s like nah I read it on a coaster in a strip club.

the mans was just on one at the time though. between that, trying to keep himself from imagining scarlett’s body beneath her wrap and failing, and then suggesting they play strip frennet. dude had to have been like fuck it my muscles are in agony i don’t care bout being horny on main i’m just tryna see the goods idc from who.

what hyper specific Aurora cycle moment are you tag yourself (im Kal in the echo when hes just chilling with his special interest instrument before he asks an authority figure an inappropriate question that he didn't realize was inappropriate and then sank into self-hatred when his lack of social skills claps back at him.)

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I know nothing about instruments and have zero musical inclination but I gotta be on team mandolin solely because if you’re right, that means twelve year old Kal hauled around a broken cello-sized instrument looking for Saedii and then proceeded to beat the shit out of her with it 💀💀💀 I know Syldrathi are bigger than humans but like, getting clubbed with a cello by a twelve year old is wild.

notes from a violinist on the siif

hey everybody i've played violin for 10 years, so naturally you can assume i was excited when the siif was described as being similar to a violin. but then, it was described as a plucked instrument where chords are more commonly played instead of notes, which caused me to Wonder...

here is what i think we can assume about the instrument, for all you fanfic writers out there:

violinists do pluck sometimes (pizzicato), but we still hold it on the shoulder when we do that. i'm assuming that the siif is something you hold at your chest/in your lap like a guitar, because it's hard to sing and play chords with something on your shoulder. I argue that the siif is actually more similar to a mandolin than a violin. why? you might ask, well a mandolin is roughly the same size, and is tuned the same as a violin, but is more commonly a chord instrument.

you might also ask what it looks like. i'm no expert, but i think we can assume that like the mandolin, it's teardrop shaped. the teardrop shape seems to be a common element in syldrathi culture so i don't think that's too big of a stretch. i think it is also dark in color, as it's probably made from lias wood

a picture from the internet of what i think it looks like

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Mans just silently seething inside when both his kids take after their mother and surpass him in height.

but the average syldrathi is hella tall as it is by human standards so what would be “really short” for them? like 5’10” or something?

Headcanon that Caersan is really short

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Are Betraskans’ eyes alright?

I know it’s the future and there’s all kinds of fancy advanced tech and stuff but like… ain’t Betraskans uncomfortable having to wearing contact lenses like 24/7 if they’re not at home underground?

Cause if they’re biologically similar to humans I would assume their eyes don’t like being deprived of oxygen and are susceptible to scratches, infections, irritations, etc. especially with a foreign body resting on the surface for hours on end.

Which is why I’m like… um are their eyes okay?

Like yeah the contacts are important to protect their eyes from UV rays cause they got zero melanin and they also need to see in the more intense lighting conditions that other species require.

But like as far as the UV, even though it’s fucking space and there’s all kinds of radiation everywhere all the time, most places with regular inhabitants would have to be sufficiently shielded anyway, no?????

So does anyone actually remove their contacts in dimmer situations where they can take them off?

Cause Fin at least seems to still wear them even if he doesn’t have to. Like when they got on the Zero, he mentioned his room was dark enough that he could take out his contacts if he wanted to.

And then he just didn’t??? 💀

Like is homeboy just straight up sleeping with sclera lenses in or????

And like Dariel was still wearing em inside his own dark ass apartment.

You know what?

As I’m writing this I’ve realized that they rightfully err on the side of caution by keeping the lenses in since they’re the odd man out when it comes to dictating adequate lighting conditions. Like if it was dark and a Betraskan removed their contacts but lights unexpectedly came on or they had to skedaddle, raw dogging the light would probably render them effectively blind for a bit and then might irreparably fuck their retinas after a while since their eyes are adapted for low-light environments.

But my point still stands. Their eyes doin okay?

All this to get to what I was originally going to say which is that someone needs to introduce Betraskans to having a pair of sunglasses even though they primarily wear contacts. That way, they can let their eyes rest every so often without leaving themselves vulnerable to suddenly losing their sight.

I also just think it’d be funny if Finian had the most outrageous pair of blacked out pit vipers or clout goggles or something.

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The explanation is she deserves to keep her badass signature look since she had to give up her powers. Nah, but like to go through all that, using the Weapon which was literally killing her piece by piece, that’s gotta leave some sorta mark.

Also, for powers that essentially put her on her ass for a bit nearly every time she used them, I’d say some isolated occurrences of dead melanocytes being the only long term effect is pretty good. Like the hair would eventually happen anyway with old age, but if the changes to her eye go deeper than just being cosmetic, it ain’t an issue cause she’s in good company with Betraskans who got an easy fix for it since they literally don’t have any melanin to protect their eyes either.

those of you who voted that auri's eye stayed white, tell me your explanation for this. i'm very curious

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You’re so right. Mans also woulda fucked with geomag and tinker toys. He’d’ve been able to keep himself entertained forever.

*Fin, making an elaborate structure on the floor*

Scarlett: “Babe, you do know those are meant for like five year olds, right?”

Fin: “Well, do five year olds understand the application of complex engineering principles?”

finian de karran de seel would have loved legos, send tweet

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When Nari told Zila, “I know they’ve left you behind, but they haven’t left you alone.”

That’s it.

That’s the post.

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does anyone remember that post where someone said that the squad should be introduced while sympathy for the devil was playing in the background? well, i propose an entirely classic rock/70s soundtrack for the aurora cycle tv show. here are some of my ideas:

back in black by acdc: saedii being introduced

seven seas of rhye by queen: when auri and the starslayer are fighting the rahaam ships (or whenever auri does something with her powers)

there are many songs that could work for the bar brawl, but i personally like mississippi queen by mountain

comfortably numb by pink floyd playing during that one chapter where it's just fin being silly by himself

the great gig in the sky by pink floyd playing when tyler dies in the alternate future and kal is confronting his father for his actions

i think for the echo scenes there should be some of the psychedelic beatles songs, like strawberry fields forever or lucy in the sky with diamonds

let me know if you have any other ideas i would love to hear them

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Coinkydink you should make this post about 70s music and Aurora Cycle cause the other day I was listening to the B-52’s Rock Lobster and thinking it was the same kind of wild nonsense energy I associate with Fin.

Do I have solid enough ideas to coherently explain how all these would fit? No. Some are deadass just based on vibes. So make of them what you will.

• Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

• In the Flesh? - Pink Floyd

• Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas

• Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

• Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers

• Time Will Tell - Tower of Power

• Hijinx - Heart

• Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

• Hot Pants - James Brown

• Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town - Talking Heads

• There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon) - The B-52’s

• Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

• Pandora’s Box - Aerosmith

• Critical Mass - Aerosmith

• Unfunky UFO - Parliament

• No Brain No Pain - Hall & Oates

• Vienna - Billy Joel

• Moonage Daydream - David Bowie

Honorable mentions just cause I’m very unserious:

• I’m Every Woman - Chaka Khan

• Hotel California - Eagles

does anyone remember that post where someone said that the squad should be introduced while sympathy for the devil was playing in the background? well, i propose an entirely classic rock/70s soundtrack for the aurora cycle tv show. here are some of my ideas:

back in black by acdc: saedii being introduced

seven seas of rhye by queen: when auri and the starslayer are fighting the rahaam ships (or whenever auri does something with her powers)

there are many songs that could work for the bar brawl, but i personally like mississippi queen by mountain

comfortably numb by pink floyd playing during that one chapter where it's just fin being silly by himself

the great gig in the sky by pink floyd playing when tyler dies in the alternate future and kal is confronting his father for his actions

i think for the echo scenes there should be some of the psychedelic beatles songs, like strawberry fields forever or lucy in the sky with diamonds

let me know if you have any other ideas i would love to hear them

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I feel like Betraskans probably mastered the art of your mom jokes just because all of them have so many mothers.

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Kal and Saedii shared healing arc, my beloved.

in reference to the end notes:

Kal, later recounting the conversation: “So I’m sitting there, Auri passed out on my titties…”

i wrote a lil fanfic of Kal and Saedii talking about childhood and future things hehehe 

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Two hours after the defeat of the Ra'haam, Saedii finally brings herself to talk to her younger brother. Emotions ensue.

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Yo, are a lot of Syldrathi ticklish but don’t know it?

Cause like physical touch is such a reserved thing in their culture I doubt there’d be many opportunities to discover it.

I’m just imaging Auri tickling Kal and him being totally bewildered by the experience and Tyler tickling Saedii and her being like what the actual fuck was that what did you just do to me???

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My heart. They’re all so pretty 🤍

ok turns out I forgot how rusty I am at fanfic at it was stressing me out, so as an apology, here's some AC fanart from my insta! Take it as compensation :)